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FACTS ABOUT KOREA
Area: 85,223 sq. ni . Population: 28,500,000 (and 700,000 Jap.)
Capital:  Seoul (Pop. 1,100,000)      "- 1940 -
Cultivated area:  (1958)  5,089,625 chobo — for Rice & Wheat.
Production: "  41,477,051 koku —    "   "  "
(l chobo: 2#45 acres;  1 koku: 5.12 bu.)
\rea cultivated for other foodstuff beside rice and wheat: 1,450,000 chobo.
World's T:Jo. 4 Rice Producer.  Quality: Best in the Far East.
Cotton production: equal to India's per capita production.
Fishing:  1,800,000 tons (1940) — more than the total production in the U.S.A.
Shipping (seagoing) entering Korea (1956)* 0v"r 16,000,000 tons.
K  ship-building yard was established in Chemulpo in 1940.
An automobile factory was opened near Seoul in 1940.
Gross value of manufactured goods in 1941:  1,875*000,000 yen.
Exports from Korea: in 1959:  1,006,794,000 yon.
Railways:  (1959)  5,427 rr.iles .     Great forests (Timber) in Northeast & north.
Coal: Estimated reserves,  5,000,000,000 tons.
1940 production:  4,000,000 tons, chiefly anthracite.
Gold:  Production in 1941 :  200,000,000 yen.
Steel:  Production in 1941: ?';  500,000 tons. Pig iron (194l) 500,000 tons.
Sulphate of ammonia:  \nnual production, 500,000 tons.
Rich deposits of: 7inc, load, gold, magnesium, circonium, chromium, aluminum,
graphit3, -"lea, tungsten, etc., molybdenum, quarts.
Cedent:  Production in 1959:  1,560,000 tens.
Rich production:  Soy beans, oil seeds, hemp, flax, suger beets, silk, rayon, etc,
Hydrologic Areas:
River.   length.   Navigability. Drainage. Prime Potential Kilowatt.
Yalu -  491 mi.   454 mi.   12,255 sq.mi.   —   2,000,000
Tuman - 525        54        4,06l            200,000
Daidong  275       l6l        6,457          250,000
Han   -  520       205       10,675        525,000
Nakdong  527       215        9,212        275,000
Others    1,450,000
Total ^rimc Power Potential,      4,500,000
Excellent Ceramic industry — famous since  12th Century.     Staple fibres.
Brass ware, furs, hides, curios, embroidery.       Tourist industry. Aviation.
Korean students abroad:  (l94l) 4,200 in Japanese colleges. Also in Europe,
^.m-rica and China.
Chief Ports:  ^usan (south),  Chemulpo (west), Mokpo (sw),  Chinnampo (nw),
Lajin (Rashin, e),  Chungjin (Seishin, ne).
Good bus network.
More than 16,000 Korean guerillas in the northeastern mountains of the peninsula;
over 5>500 sabotage cases in Korea, — 1959 -- Japan Year Book.
Diesel engine manufacturers are located in Fusan, Kunsan and Chemulpo.
Machinery and Tools for ordnance and mining: manufactured in Seoul.
Explosives, ammunition and small arms are manufactured in Seoul.
Mrcraft aro manufactured in Seoul and Pyeng-yang (Heijo).
Aircraft parts are manufactured in Seoul, Pyong-yang, Kunsan, Chemulpo
and Shin-eui-ju (Shingishu).
Korea practised do^cracy from time immemorial — Every village has an election
each autumn to choose its own governing body.  Purely Korean system.
U.S.-Korean Treaty, ratified in 1885 by U.S. Senate, still in force,
Korean Provisional Government - established in 1919 - now exiled in Chungking.
Korean Commission, diplomatic agency of the Korean Provisional Government,
established in April 1, 1919, - Present address: 4700 Sixteenth St., N.W.,
Washington 11, D.C., U .S.Af    (Other information on request)      *****